The well-known Ukrainian therapist and TV presenter Yevgeny Komarovsky told whether to be afraid of the G4 swine flu.
We continue to live in a dangerous pandemic coronavirus, and information about new pathogens is perceived by many people with great excitement.
Is it really not one virus that threatens humanity, but several at once?
According to Dr. Komarovsky, there is no need to worry about the G4 swine flu, which was recently discovered in China. This flu is not human, people cannot get it. Of course, pathogens sometimes mutate, but even crossing the species barrier does not make the flu dangerous for everyone.
Influenza that infects animals, for example, becomes a type of human flu not when it infects humans, but when it acquires the ability to spread from person to person.The doctor emphasized that the risk of such a mutation arises in cases where a person simultaneously becomes infected with human and, for example, swine flu. Information is exchanged in the body, the virus can mutate.
But there is no information about changes in the genome of the virus, the pediatrician noted.
He advised not to think about the perceived dangers, focusing on protecting against existing strains of influenza.
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